Swaledale ewes sold to a high of £4800 at Kirkby Stephen yesterday evening, with the top price paid for the second prize gimmer from P E and K A Sowerby’s Mossdale flock. This one went to A Skidmore.
Second best of the flying trade was a £4500 bid for the reserve pre-sale champion and first prize gimmer from the late Wayne Winspear, Cragg View, with this one being knocked down to Messrs Sowerby.
Reserve champion from The late Wayne Winspear sold for £4500
Another in-lamb gimmer from Cragg view then went at £4200 and another traded at £3000. And the same vendors enjoyed a roaring trade in the in-lamb ewes too, making £3100 for one, with another from the same home at £2600, and the champion selling for £2300 to Messrs Lightfoot. Others made £2200 and £2000 for the same vendor.
Selling for £2700 was the second prize ewe from Messrs Sowerby, she went to T Brogden. Making the same money was the dearest ewe hogg of the sale, the fourth prize hogg from W M Hutchinson and Sons, Redgate. This was knocked down to M E Simpson, with the same vendors trading the first prize winner at £2400.
Other leading prices including another in-lamb gimmer from Cragg View at £2100.
Averages; Ewes £1678.18 (+£492.18), gimmers £1571.82 (+£743.82), ewe hoggs £954.54 (+£419.54) (Harrison and Hetherington).
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